The McGurk effect. First, watch this video while looking at the speaker’s face.

Then, replay the video with your eyes closed.

Magic!!

Having a bit of a nobody-loves-me kind of week :(

Mope mope mope.

My plan, one way or another, is to move out of my parents’ house in October, and they’ve been nagging me to make up a budget to see if I can afford it. Hi mum and dad, I only have employment until the end of September, of course I can’t afford it!!! I am going to just cross my fingers and hope I can get another job in term 4, and otherwise live off the “Centrelink and my savings” (i.e. “don’t spend any money”) budget, supplemented perhaps by tutoring but mainly by the overwhelming determination not to still live with my parents when I turn twenty-seven in 2010.

I am still pretty bitter. I did six years of university; I’m not asking for a million dollar salary, but surely a little financial stability isn’t too much to wish for :(

Also my sister seems to be making an effort to be nice to me (because my mum asked her to), and I do not actually know how to react :-/

I do not know if this kind of mood arises from the stress of preparing for teaching, or if I actually am just particularly unlikeable to everyone except my dog lately.

Mope.

My dog and I are getting along great, at least.

Blogging is hard lately. Do me a favour and imagine that I blogged every day for the last 6 months, with a randomly selected entry from the following options:

A. Today I went to work and then played the Sims
B. Today I hung out with Josh
C. Today I went to work and then hung out with Josh

I think that the picture this gives of my life would be fairly accurate.

But! News! Last week I got a teaching job for term three! Full time, teaching ESL at a high school. It’s exciting and also I am a bit terrified! So tomorrow is my last day of my old job, and then I have next week off for preparation. And then EEEEK.